XPath with contains and starts-with in Selenium Python - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to find an element whose text contains 'Submit'.

Selenium Python

element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[contains(text(), '[1]')]")

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A"button"

B"submit"

C"Submit"

D"Click"

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Forgetting quotes around the text inside contains()

Using incorrect case in the text string

The contains() function in XPath checks if the text contains the exact string 'Submit'.

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medium

Complete the code to find an element whose attribute 'id' starts with 'user_'.

Selenium Python

element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[starts-with(@id, '[1]')]")

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A"id"

B"name_"

C"btn_"

D"user_"

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the attribute name as the string to match

Omitting the quotes around the prefix string

The starts-with() function checks if the attribute 'id' begins with 'user_'.

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hard

Fix the error in the XPath to find a button with class containing 'submit-btn'.

Selenium Python

element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[contains(@class, '[1]')]")

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A"submit-btn"

Bsubmit-btn

Csubmit_btn

D'submit-btn'

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Not quoting the string inside contains()

Using underscores instead of hyphens

The string inside contains() must be quoted properly inside the XPath string.

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hard

Fill both blanks to find a div whose id starts with 'main' and contains 'content'.

Selenium Python

element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[starts-with(@id, '[1]') and contains(@id, '[2]')]")

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A"main"

B"content"

C"container"

D"header"

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Mixing up the order of starts-with and contains

Forgetting quotes around strings

The XPath uses starts-with() for 'main' and contains() for 'content' on the id attribute.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a dictionary comprehension that maps element text to id for elements whose class starts with 'btn' and contains 'active'.

Selenium Python

result = {element.text: element.get_attribute('[1]') for element in elements if element.get_attribute('[2]').[3]('btn') and 'active' in element.get_attribute('class')}

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Aid

Bclass

Cstartswith

Dget_attribute

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'class' instead of 'id' for dictionary values

Using contains() method incorrectly in Python

Not calling startswith() as a method

We get the 'id' attribute for the dictionary value, check 'class' attribute for startswith('btn'), and use the startswith() method.